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Definition of Aeolic
1. Noun. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
Definition of Aeolic
1. Proper noun. An ancient Greek dialect spoken in Boeotia and the island of Lesbos. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aeolic
Literary usage of Aeolic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"aeolic was spoken in Lesbos, and was used by the Lesbian poets Alcaeus and Sappho
... Theocritus' idylls—30 are in aeolic. Doric was spoken in Peloponnesus ..."
2. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"aeolic 621. To aeolic used in its widest sense belong three dialects, ...
For Lesbian and Asiatic aeolic there is a large number of inscriptions, ..."
3. Iron, Steel, and Other Alloys by Henry Marion. Howe (1903)
"198), that the metal is unsaturated austenite. 188. (1) /EOLIC STEEL, 0.90 per
cent carbon. Austenite of this composition, or aeolic austenite, has received ..."
4. The Principles of Sound and Inflexion as Illustrated in the Greek and Latin by John Edward King, Christopher Cookson (1888)
"... in -creta has the name of the aeolic aeolic optative. It was probably extended
from the 3rd plural, °p "*" " Stiff lav, which may be for ..."
5. Specimens of Greek Dialects: Being a Fourth Greek Reader, with Introductions by William Walter Merry (1875)
"WITHOUT attempting to solve the vexed question of the relation of aeolic to the
other dialects, we may at any rate regard it as representing, more than any ..."
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